The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century
Johnson, Kirk W.2018
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Who is Edwin Rist? Genius? Narcissist? Felon? Mastermind? Pawn? Liar? One summer evening in 2009, twenty-year-old musical prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the British Museum of Natural History. Hours later, he slipped away with a suitcase full of rare bird specimens collected over the centuries from across the world, all featuring a dazzling array of priceless feathers. Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist-deep in a river in New Mexico when he first heard about the heist, from his fly-fishing guide. When he discovered that the thief evaded prison, and that half the birds were never recovered, Johnson embarked upon a years-long worldwide investigation which led him deep into the fiercely secretive underground community obsessed with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying.
Main title:
The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / Kirk Wallace Johnson.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson, 2018.
Collation:
x, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781786330130 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.1628598074364.1364.162364.1628
LC class:
HV6248
Local class:
364.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
2203957